Rosh Hashana: Reality Distortion Fields

I do not understand the world.  That is a message from the  religious tradition. The world operates on a higher level than I can perceive.  Thus, my ideas of truth and  justice and self and community are personal distortions that can be (partially) corrected by scholarship.  This morning our minyan recited  selichoth, prayers of penitence. Some of the analyze these grand concepts in poetry   

. (9) יָבִיא בַּמִּשְׁפָּט עַל־כָּל־נֶעְלָם: His might brings to judgment everything hidden.

 (11) אֱמֶת אַתָּה־הוּא רִאשׁוֹן וְאֵין רֵאשִׁית לְרֵאשִׁיתֶךָ.It is true that You are first and there is no genesis to Your beginning. 

These prayer-poems offer a perspective that rarely reaches  consciousness. 

Science also convinces me that I do not understand the world.  Without special equipment, I have no awareness of the information coursing though wires, or even in the air  - on radio, wifi, bluetooth, etc.  There is a hidden world that I cannot  perceive without a (magical) transducer.   Around me there is a magnetic world, a world of physical forces that are sensible only when they release their extraordinary energies.  I do not really know what is happening around me, but because of its power and predictability - I believe in its existence and properties.  These  hidden forces are the domain of science and engineering.  

Rosh Hashanah is defined by the appearance of the New Moon in Tishrei, the seventh month. It is the observation of the  New Moon that generates Rosh Hashana. We celebrate  the new moon for every month except Tishrei, when the New Moon marks the new year.  The natural world defers to the spiritual. 

   We now have two days of Rosh Hashana  because of the (ancient, precalendar) uncertainty about the exact time the new moon would appear and the testimony of those who witnessed it would be accepted. The two days of Rosh Hashanah attest to the uncertainty  about the physical world and represents a way to respond to that uncertainty.  Now, even after the Copernican/Kepplerian model of the celestial bodies allows a very accurate calendar, that tells us with a high level of scientific certainty when the new moon will appear ( if it is not too cloudy), we maintain the ancient fix, the two days of ambiguity.  The ambiguity is important

Uncertainty  is one of the things we celebrate on Rosh Hashana.  We consider the nature of our immediate future, what will happen in the next year and how will it turn out?  Few people considered the coronavirus epidemic ( there were some: Bill Gates  ( whose father recently died) in a general way ; and there are coronovirus virus researchers who knew about SARS and MERS).  The plague of toxic smoke ( consequences  to unfold over the next decades) was a ( somewhat predictable) surprise.  My daughter, who had leukemia at age 3, gave birth to twins ( a boy and and a girl).  My grandson turns one. Everything is a (predictable) surprise - like the birth of Isaac [and its consequences]

Is the world dangerous? Is it miraculous? I just don't understand. How can I not believe?